The last Journey Of The Hood by AliceFromLake
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After a short battle with Bismarck of 6 minutes only, Hood got a hit into the aft munition magazines und blew up. The explosion was so fierce, that debris rained on H.M.S. Prince Of Wales 800m away. There was no escape for the men. The most died with the explosion and only three minutes after that incidence Hood disapeared from horizon. British media spoke about the darkest event of WWII for the british empire. Only three men survived.
This incidence showed the weakness of the Battle Cruiser Concept. They were fast and big and heavy armed but weak in armour. The Jutland Battle in WWI showed this when three battle cruisers were sunk by the germans. The german never were a sea going nation but their battle cruisers were better armoured and better constructed with better workmanship (and may be expensiver?). German battle cruiser got many hits and were able to return home, british battle cruiser blew up after only one hit into the magazines. After the Battle of Jutland the british battle cruisers were upgraded with more armour but it was not enough so Hood and his men became a victim of an ill-fated concept.
After the war, the german battle cruisers were interned in Scapa Flow and examined by allied experts. The lessons learned flow into the designs of the modern battle ships and it seams that american designers learned more than the british. After looking at the construction blueprints of both I think the americam ships were better designed than the british Nelson and Anson classes build just before WWII. After all the aircraft won the race.
Hood is from cschell. Rendered in Cinema4D with only minor postwork in Gimp.
Comments (7)
steelrazer
Nice. I like the water and the wakes...subtle and realistically effective. If I can make a personal artistic observation...I think that some orange flame or explosive burst in orange and yellow at the base of the explosive smoke would really enhance the drama of the picture and the composition. It would add some color contrast to the composition and increase the visual drama of the violent action as well. The outward blast of the grey smoke is very nicely done. Good job!
IUPAC
I´ve been looking at your picture for a long while. So I think it touched my heart. I want to have more of this feelings. Well done.
T.Rex
Nice job. I do agree with steelrazer about color at the base of the explosion. Also, the weather was quite bad, but that would make it hard to see the explosion if you were to add that. The Hood was due to be up-armoured on her rear decks but lack of money and initiative hindered it during the pre-war period. She was sent out to stop the Bismarck although she was supposed to be put in dock for up-armoring. Instead, she was hit in her "Achilles heel" and sunk. The explosion, contained between her armoured sides, propagated foreward through her engine spaces (exploding her boilers) and into the foreward magazines. The same fate as that of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Keep up the good work! :-)
rocdan
great explosion, fab render
cschell
By the time the Hood was sunk she was over-due for a massive refit... her boilers and steam-lines needed to be replaced, and major issues repaired... she was supposed to have received upgrades to her main deck armor, and also her armoured decks were to have been improved... as well as her anti-aircraft deffenses beefed up... amongst other improvements... she was in such a bad state that she stripped a turbine trying to make 28 of her origional 32 knots speed... she'd been deemed by the Admiralty to be too important to the fleet to pull off the line for the needed repairs and upgrades... sadly these upgrades may have saved the 1415 men that died on board. Just before the fatal hit that sank her, Hood had taken a hit that had ignited her 4" ready-use ammunition on the boat deck... and when the final death blow struck jets of flame were seen venting from her aft-decks around the main mast that rose well above the level of the mast and appeared much like giant blow-torches... a witness described watching the deck beneath the main-mast swell up much like a bubble just before the final fatal explosion...
Osper
The Hood suffered the same fate as her sisters, the other battle Cruisers. An immunity zone that did not jive with the facts of war. Keep working on it Mike, it's got an excellent start!
radioham
The Hood WW2 what a lost of life the ship that fired her death blow was so far away that the crew could not see her love the render you do great work....